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As in the other stories the courtiers chuse the wrong casket; and

It may also be found in the LXV. Nov. of the Cento Novelle Antiche.

"The story, however, as it stands in Gower, seems to be copied from one which is told by the hermit Barlaam to King Avenamore, in the spiritual romance, written originally in Greek, about the year 800, by Joannes Damascenus, a Greek monk, and entitled, . But